Do any of you model 70 friends shoot and love model 52's ? I am a big fan and have an E model coming in. I love my C HB target, C Sporter both 1956 models and a 52R Zanders HB all are tack drivers and this E is said to be the best of the best, time will tell. I can bang away all day and not feel like Im breaking the bank ammo wise. My supply of wolf MT is sipping away in a hurry and I am getting sticker shock replacing my .22 target stash!very best winpoor

A model 52 is on my short list of guns to buy. I remember years ago when my grandpa came over to Montana to visit and we perused the used gun racks at a local pawn shop. He was very excited when he found a wonderful model 52 at a great price. He loved Parker shotguns and Winchester rifles.

Oregon45 loves the 52. I personally want to get a 75 deluxe one of these days. I kind of had an opportunity (If I hadn't already spent $1,600.00 on 2 rifles that day) last summer at an antique firearms gunshow to buy a 75 deluxe to die for. Oh well, I couldn't pass up my 71 that day...

I just sold one of my three M52's, but I've got my eye on another one. They're greatest guns and still competitive on the silhouette firing line.

Big fan of Winchester rim fires in particular, have a very clean 52B, on the look out for a C and a D.


100 yd 5 shot group with the B


Have a couple 75's and 69A's also, accurate rifles just not up to 52 standards.

When USRAC came out with the repro in the 90's I would not buy one because it had 'made in Japan' . about 350 if memory serves! My how times change, I have a Zanders HB and absolutley love it , I think they made 250 satin( mine is satin and came with irons as well as drilled and tapped and grooved and 250 gloss with the extra heavy barrel, after removing the 'lawyer pin' the trigger is very nice and the more I shoot it the better it shoots, right now it shoots with my 56' 'C' sporter at a 1/4 of the initial investment. Al my 52's love wolf MT made by Lapua, SK, its getting harder to find . If you ever run across the Federal Gold Metal Match, UM1, from the 90's buy it as I have shot 1/2 inch 100 yard groups with that dimpled ammo! I is like it was tailor made for 52's! very best WinPoor

I love that 75 deluxe. I almost bought one just like it last year for $575.00

Here's my 52C, made in 1956. It's in a Dunlop stock and I had it drilled and tapped for a modern scope. 5-shots at 50 yards:

I knew you would be posting some cool 52's.. That one is pretty tricked out. I've seen some 52's at our club shoot that well (even better) with old outdated (period correct) scopes too.

I know Augie. It was a steal!! It was as nice as yours and yours looks almost new in the pic. There were numerous 52's at that gunshow as well. The 52's are amazing shooters from what I've seen. I was eyeballing a 52 sporter in Nevada the last time I was there. They were wanting $1,000.00 for it, but I didn't know if that was a good deal.

BSA, Unless you just have to have an org. 52C sporter, bide your time till a 52R Zanders HB sporter pops up, they are super well made, shoot like a house afire and hold value to the max, there is a lot of debate as to how many Zanders had done but the best I can tell is 250 satin and 250 gloss. I bought mine several years ago and could not be happier, it shoots right there with my 56' 52C sporter at about 1/4 the investment! The 'Rs' had a lawyer pin installed to limit wt of pull but it is a simple small roll pin to remove, then you can safely reduce wt of pull to about 2 lbs with no creep. Next Time I get the camera out I will take a pix, I may have one on photobucket. very best WinPoor

Here is a photo I took right after my Zanders came in as I had a 36X scope mounted up to see just what she would do on the bench, it wears a fixed 8X now for hunting.

To me it is the finest non custom .22lr money can buy, made in japan or not! I take it to the woods a lot more than my org 56' 'C' model. very best winpoor

winpoor, that is a true beauty. I could handle something like that!! I'll definitely keep an eye out for one of those..

Someone else will be looking also.

Just what I need, more competition .. Battue, I'm going to be in your neck of the woods tomorrow..

Some guys have all the luck.

I'll be free Wed and Fri, if you have some time shoot me a PM. Plan on shooting some shotguns.

I'm on the hunt for a clean original 52C Sporter. I own a Japanese made 52 that I like a lot, it's the first gun I ever bought when I was 12 yrs old.

These ole 52's just do it for me, Some of my best Saturdays after a deerhunt with GA Bulldog football on the radio has been a group shooting at 100 yards with my 52C target and a 36X leupold scope with a 1/8 moa lee diamond dot and wolf MT ammo,We shoot the 3" orange stick on target dots with a 1" black bull. Only a hit in the black count, when everything is just right you can see the bullet fall out of the arc and dot that dot. great practice and throw a little wind in the game and it is fun city! WinPoor

Sounds like fun. Wish I could, but I'll be busy with funeral stuff and then going to the baseball game on friday. Shooting shotguns sounds funner though....

PNC park is a beautiful ball park. Pirates are still in the hunt and if the weather cooperates it should be a great night on the river.

Addition: Pirate first baseman hit an estimated 450ft home run today. Hit a light post speaker outside the park or it may have made the river. It was cranked!!!!

HINT for my Winchester 52,and or rimfire pals, Graf and Sons, S&K Magazine ammo 500ct cans plus bricks of SK match . 2 can limit and 4 brick limit + free shipping.... It will not last long! shoots as good as Wolf, comes off same Lapua machines...I do not want to tell the world as I need 3 more days worth. very best WinPoor

A lot of fn people there tonight buddy!!! It was beautiful though..

Yea it gets a little crowded when the home team is on a roll. Getting in and out can get on ones nerves.

Still it was a great night for baseball in the Burg. Watched it at home. Great game. Pitchers duel with some great plays in the field. It was somewhere around the 35th time this year the Bucs came from behind for the win.

winpoor. Sorry for talking about baseball on your cool thread. I wish I had more time down here. I would have liked to have met battue, beretz, CFVA and BobinNH. You guys have a great day. I'll be on the plane

My friend, no need for me, Im very mellow ,easy guy who is the worse guy here to go off topic, a thread is just a place for us to visit. Out of every cattle,gun,shooting,flying ,hunting etc. place I visit the Winchester forum here is no 1. Good peoples here! very best WinPoor

I knew you would understand Steve. Thanks buddy!!!